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On Wed, 24 Dec 2003, Charles May wrote:

> see where OF shows up on both disks.  I do not know what the change to
> 05 means.  Will I lose data?  What does this change do?

Until very recently, OS/2 did not recognize type 0F partitions, so
changing it to 05 allows OS/2 to see it.  There are some versions of
Windoze that apparently cause data corruption when using 05 instead of 0F,
but I have no personal experience with this, so others will have to tell
you about it.

 

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